page_title: William Charles Thomas Dobson
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: William Charles Thomas Dobson / Work
caption_attribution_description: English: The Holy Family Returned from Egypt, painting.
context_page_description: William Charles Thomas Dobson RA RWS was an English painter.
context_section_description: Dobson exhibited portraits, and The Hermit, a subject from Thomas Parnell's poem, at the Royal Academy Exhibitions of 1842–45. The Young Italian Goatherd, painted in Italy, was at the exhibition of 1846. He painted numerous scriptural subjects, at first in oils, later in water-colours also, which caught the vogue for sentimentality, and were popularised by engraving.
  Some of Dobson's religious pictures were:
  Tobias and the Angel, 1853;
  The Charity of Dorcas, 1854;
  The Aims-Deeds of Dorcas, 1855, which was bought by Queen Victoria;
  The Prosperous Days of Job, 1856 (this and the previous work were engraved by Henry Bourne for The Art Journal);
  The Child Jesus going to Nazareth with his Parents, and Reading the Psalms, 1857, both owned by Baroness Burdett-Coutts;
  The Holy Innocents;
  The Good Shepherd;
  Abraham and Hagar;
  and among secular subjects: The Picture Book (International Exhibition 1862); The Camellia, The Dresden Flower-Girl, Sappho, Mignon, and Ione.
  As a watercolourist Dobson resisted innovation, by artists such as Frederick Walker, and George John Pinwell who used bodycolour.
caption: The Holy Family Returned from Egypt Dobson, 1863 painting by Dobson
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